‘I went from tycoon to sleeping on floor’

HE was the poster boy property developer who fronted an RTÉ show during the boom in which he gave young adults tips on buying their first home.

‘I went from tycoon to sleeping on floor’

But former multi-millionaire John McGuire has told how his business empire collapsed overnight, leaving him millions in debt and even forcing him to rent out his own home and sleep on a mattress in an office block.

Mr McGuire, 39, helped dozens of grown-up children make a break from their parents and get their first step on the property ladder in the popular TV series I’m An Adult, Get Me Out Of Here, which first aired in 2005.

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